Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, newly released documents reveal the Pentagon’s top general had to dissuade senior Trump administration officials from attempting to court-martial retired military officers who wrote editorials critical of Donald Trump.  ... More


Hebron, January 5 (RHC)--Israel’s military has begun demolishing homes, water supplies and olive orchards in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, near Hebron.  This week, Israeli armored vehicles accompanied demolition crews as they razed homes and farms in two villages. ... More


Madrid, January 5 (RHC)-- Record high winter temperatures have swept across parts of Europe into the New Year, bringing calls from climate activists for faster action against global warming while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices.  Hundreds of sites have seen temperature records smashed, from Switzerland to Poland and Hungary.... More


San Francisco, January 5 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency and ordered evacuations as a cyclone slammed into the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday night with hurricane-force winds and torrential downpours. ... More


La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, has denied that the governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, is a political prisoner -- revealing at least 33 pieces of evidence that the detainee financed the 2019 coup d'état.... More


Miami, January 5 (RHC)-- The former minister of the Bolivian de facto government headed by Jeanine Áñez, Arturo Murillo, has been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison in the United States for the crimes of international bribery and money laundering.... More


London, January 5 (RHC)-- Disabled people in the United Kingdom are among the hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis, a new report has concluded, with comparatively low incomes leaving them exposed to soaring prices.... More


Tegucigalpa, January 5 (RHC)-- Authorities of the National Police of Honduras have reported the murder of three women in the last 24 hours in different points of the Central American country.... More


La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- Bolivia closed 2022 with 0.1 percent lethality of COVID-19 disease, the lowest in the region, according to reports from the nation's Ministry of Health and Sports.  "If we analyze the lethality rate in the last epidemiological event, our last wave, whatever you want to call it, we have a lethality of 0.1 percent (...) compared to other countries," said the Minister of Health and Sports, Jeyson Auza at a press conference.... More


Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- The number of children shot and killed in the United States in 2022 exceeded 6000. The Gun Violence Archive found that at least 6032 children, 17 years of age and younger, had been the victims of America's deadly gun epidemic.... More


Lima, January 5 (RHC)-- After a few days of truce due to the holiday festivities, Peruvian farmers, workers, merchants, transporters, and other citizens of the Cusco and Puno regions resumed massive protests to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the call for early general elections, and the release of former President Pedro Castillo.... More


Buenos Aires, January 5 (RHC)-- The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, has rejected the British occupation of the Malvinas Islands, which -- in this words -- "should embarrass the whole world" in the framework of the 190th anniversary of the usurpation of the archipelago by the United Kingdom.... More


Rome, January 5 (RHC)-- According to media sources in Rome, the start of the New Year has brought bad news for the Italians.  The average price of unleaded gasoline at the pump in Italy has once again surged, increasing by over fifteen cents - that is about fifteen percent more compared to December 31st.... More


Santiago de Chile, January 4 (RHC)-- The Chilean Senate has approved the constitutional reform that enables the new process for the elaboration and approval of a new Constitution in the South American country.  The proposal was approved in the Senate Chamber by 42 votes in favor, seven against and one abstention.... More


Bogota, January 4 (RHC)-- The Colombian government announced Wednesday that the ceasefire decree with the National Liberation Army (ELN) is suspended, after the rebel group's statement in which it assured that an agreement was never reached with the government of Gustavo Petro.... More


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